Antonyms for gormandize


Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb gawr-muh n-dahyz; noun gawr-muh n-deez
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈgɔr mənˌdaɪz; noun ˌgɔr mənˈdiz


Definition of gormandize

Origin :
  • 1540s, from gourmand + -ize.
  • verb gorge
Example sentences :
  • And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since.
  • Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) » by John McElroy
  • Indeed, very frequently when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
  • Extract from : « Holiday House » by Catherine Sinclair
  • Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandize to repletion.
  • Extract from : « The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies » by Walter Besant
  • Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
  • Extract from : « The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young » by Margaret Warner Morley
  • And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
  • Extract from : « Mother » by Maksim Gorky
  • Go to, thou gorged dullard, and tell thy master to gormandize without me.
  • Extract from : « Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II » by Various
  • She satirizes human foibles and weaknesses, showing ghosts that gossip and gormandize, simper and swear as they did in life.
  • Extract from : « The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction » by Dorothy Scarborough
  • Indeed, very frequently, when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
  • Extract from : « Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) » by Various

Synonyms for gormandize

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